In the latest version of VIBlend Controls for WinForms, we added a new utility control called vDataGridViewSeachHeader.
This small control adds a Search Functionality to the DataGridView and allows the users to easily find a record in a large data set. The post will show you how to associate this control to an instance of the vDataGridView control.

- Drag and drop a new instance of the vDataGridViewSearchHeader.
- Drag and drop a new instance of the vDataGridView.
- Set the DataGridView property of the vDataGridViewSearchHeader to point to your vDataGridView instance.

Here are the DataGridView and its Search Header at design-time.

In the code behind, bind the Grid to a DataTable. In the post, we will use a sample data.

C#

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using VIBlend.WinForms.DataGridView;